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File 1855/1904 Pt 10 'Koweit:- Relations with Turkey. Sheikh's properties at Fao and Fadaghia' [163v] (326/398)
The record is made up of 199 folios. It was created in 12 Jan 1908-18 Sep 1912. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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2. I shall be obliged if you will kindly render any assistance possible to the
Sheikh’s men in enforcing the Sheikh’s orders and also inform the Quarantine
Medical Officer whether, to the best of your knowledge and belief, any passengers
have managed to disembark at Koweit.
3. The Sheikh further desires that no persons except intending passengers
be allowed to board the steamer, the Quarantine Officer of course being an ex
ception as usual.
Copy of a letter, dated the 8th July igo8,from the Commander S. S. “ Dumra"
to the
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
, Kaweit.
I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter No. 376 of 1908.
Three passengers were booked for Koweit and disembarked before the arrival
of the Quarantine Officer and the Sheikh’s man. I requested the Sheikh’s man
to have the passengers sent on board again, but he said he could not do so.
Quarantine Report.
Koweit, gth July igo8.
S. S. “ Dumra ” arrived here yesterday evening at about 8 P.M. — '
I saw Sheikh Mubarak on Tuesday the 7th instant to receive instructions
from him regarding quarantine. He said that as there was to be quarantine in
Koweit, the passengers for Koweit would not be allowed to land in Koweit, but
would be taken to Basra or Mohammerah. He also said that there was no
necessity for me to go on board the ship, and that intimation had been already
sent to Bombay about two weeks ago that passengers coming by the fast
mail would not be allowed to land in Koweit, but would be taken to Moham-
meran or Basra instead.
fvaracni was declared to be an unclean port. Under instructions from the
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
, I went on board the ship, and found that the passengers for
Koweit were taken in the Sheikh’s boat to be landed on shore. 1 informed
Captain Cole, the Commander of the vessel that recent instructions from the
Sheikh were to the effect that passengers for Koweit should not be allowed
to land in Koweit, but should be taken to Mohammerah or Basra instead. The
Commander of the vessel told me that he could not help it, as the Sheikh’s men
trf 11 a Tu em m t ^ leir . He said that if it was the Sheikh’s order not
a low the passengers to land in Koweit, his own men ought not to have taken
the passengers in their boat to land them on shore.
Some people from the shore were seen to have hoarded the steamer, and
aid not observe quarantine restrictions.
(Signed) Rustomji Ardeshir,
Quarantine Medical Officer,
Koweit.
C. C. B. P., Simla.—No. C.354 P. D,—9-9.03.-51.—E. A. D’S.
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The papers concern relations between Shaikh Mubarak [Mubārak bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], Ruler of Koweit [Kuwait] and the Government of Turkey [the Ottoman Empire]; particularly in regard to the purchase by the Shaikh of date gardens at Fao [Al Fāw] on the Shatt-al-Arab, and property at Fadaghia, near Fao, both of which were in Turkish territory. In both cases, the Turkish authorities insisted that the Shaikh should first register himself as an Ottoman subject before they would allow the legal formalities of ownership to be completed.
The principal correspondents are the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Zachariah Cox); the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Kuwait (Major Stuart George Knox; from 1909 Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear); the British Consul at Basrah (also referred to as Bussorah) [Basra] (Francis Edward Crow); the British Ambassador at Constantinople (Sir Gerald Augustus Lowther); Shaikh Mubarak; and senior officials of the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , the Government of India, and the Foreign Office.
The papers cover: papers concerning the Fao property, including the Shaikh's appeals for a committee of inquiry and arbitration over the matter, January 1908 - July 1909 (folios 115-199); papers concerning the Fadaghia property, February 1909 - December 1910 (folios 6-114); Foreign Office paper containing a memorandum communicated to the Turkish Ambassador concerning the Bagdad railway question and other matters, July 1911 (folios 4-5); and correspondence concerning a false report in a Turkish newspaper that an allowance had been granted by the Turkish Government to Shaikh Mubarak, May-July 1912 (folios 2-3).
The French language content of the papers is confined to three folios of newspaper extracts (folios 133-135).
The date range gives the covering dates of all the documents contained in the papers; the covering dates of the Secret Department minute papers that enclose them, as given on folio 1, are 1908-1912.
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